Leftists condemn Elon Musk for donating to GOP PAC
Rick Moran, American Thinker
– Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly donated nearly $40,000 to a Republican political action committee, becoming one of their top 50 donors last quarter, The Hill reported Saturday.
– The Federal Election Commission filingshows Musk donated $38,900 to the Protect the House PAC, a committee dedicated to keeping Republicans in control of Congress, The Hill reported.
Gee. Sounds great, doesn’t it. Elon Musk, a darling of the left, avowed socialist, coming over to ‘our side’.
I don’t think so. We all understand how much the GOP ‘wing’ of the Washington Establishment likes money…and how easily they can be bought.
Open borders? Heck, the Republicans’ official position on that matter (or what voters think it is) is sound, fair immigration policy which protects our borders, promotes a legal immigrant process, and opposes the ‘invasion’ of millions of migrants entering the country illegally and refusing even minor attempts to assimilate and accept the values and institutions on which America was founded and has prospered for going on three centuries.
But, when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, with members comprising a major donor pool tells the party establishment to ‘jump on the open orders train’, its only question is “how high?”.
When the Party’s ‘high rollers’ tell the establishment to oppose Trump’s tariff policies, which address the grievous unfairness toward America by our trading partners , and which virtually everyone in Washington has acknowledged has existed for decades, it’s “yessuh, boss!”
“Climate change”, Planned Parenthood, religious freedom…establishment GOP candidates nimbly proclaim their support of the Party’s “official position”, until it’s time to weigh promise and principle against donations from big corporations and billionaire ‘chubby cats’ favoring a self-serving issue. And then, guess which wins.
You ask us, Elon Musk is just buying some votes from people like John McCain, Susan Collins, The Flake, Paul Ryan, et al.
Won’t be surprised to learn Tom Steyer and Mark Zuckerberg aren’t also donating to retain the GOP establishment. DLH
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More from Moran’s column:
According to Salon, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and Houston Texans owner Robert McNair were also donators, bringing the group’s second quarter earnings to more than $8 million.
Musk has donated to many candidates from both parties in the past including Hilary Clinton in both of her presidential campaigns.
“By the way, I am actually a socialist,” he tweeted. “Just not the kind that shifts resources from most productive to least productive, pretending to do good, while actually causing harm. True socialism seeks greatest good for all.”
